Information technology, applied.

Facial Recognition

It looks like someone is already working on an augmented reality social app. ArsTechnica just published an article on a company called Lambda that is working on facial recognition for Google Glass. Lamda’s founder described the potential social application of their technology in a similar way to my description below. It does seem like a natural use of the technology. Showing metadata on real world objects is a well known use of augmented reality and so extending that to people makes sense.

I was surprised that Google intended to forbid facial recognition apps on Glass. Their rationale is apparently “privacy”. Yes, that is correct, Google is concerned about privacy. That is certainly ironic.